Flevoland (category Zuiderzee Works) one provincial entity. It is in the centre of the country in the former Zuiderzee, which was turned into the freshwater IJsselmeer by the closure of the... 19 KB (1,727 words) - 16:27, 22 April 2024 |
the number of dikes that had to be raised. Along with the Zuiderzee Works, the Delta Works have been declared one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World... 22 KB (2,374 words) - 14:17, 2 April 2024 |
reclaim large areas of land. The most important are the Zuiderzee Works and the Delta Works. By the end of the 20th century all sea inlets have been... 32 KB (4,377 words) - 10:07, 22 February 2024 |
Afsluitdijk (category Zuiderzee Works) The Afsluitdijk is a fundamental part of the larger Zuiderzee Works, damming off the Zuiderzee, a salt water inlet of the North Sea, and turning it into... 25 KB (2,924 words) - 03:07, 25 April 2024 |
IJsselmeer (category Zuiderzee Works) legislature approved the Zuiderzee Works, a major hydraulic engineering project that involved building dykes, draining parts of the Zuiderzee and constructing... 8 KB (843 words) - 00:35, 21 April 2024 |
Much of the modern land reclamation has been done as a part of the Zuiderzee Works since 1919. According to a 2007 study by Calvin College Michigan (USA)... 12 KB (1,313 words) - 05:45, 17 April 2024 |
Cornelis Lely (category Zuiderzee Works) authorising construction of the Zuiderzee Works, a huge project – designed to his own plans – that turned the Zuiderzee into a lake and made possible the... 12 KB (612 words) - 19:13, 22 September 2023 |
tracts of land as large polders in an enormous project known as the Zuiderzee Works. One of these, the Markerwaard, was to occupy the area of the current... 5 KB (400 words) - 01:32, 13 April 2024 |
The Zuiderzee Museum, located on Wierdijk in the historic center of Enkhuizen, is a Dutch museum devoted to preserving the cultural heritage and maritime... 11 KB (1,135 words) - 19:10, 7 March 2023 |
Noordoostpolder (category Zuiderzee Works) center, located in the heart of the Noordoostpolder. For history, see Zuiderzee Works. The population centres are Bant, Creil, Emmeloord, Ens, Espel, Kraggenburg... 9 KB (401 words) - 11:34, 11 December 2022 |
Markerwaard (category Zuiderzee Works) Markermeer. Cornelis Lely's plan projected a polder in the south-west of the Zuiderzee, originally named Hoornsche Polder, referring to Hoorn, then simply "Southwest... 6 KB (660 words) - 19:04, 15 April 2024 |
Netherlands (section Delta Works) former Zuiderzee (Southern Sea) from the North Sea and thus creating the IJsselmeer (IJssel Lake). It became part of the larger Zuiderzee Works in which... 207 KB (20,110 words) - 03:19, 25 April 2024 |
Houtribdijk (category Zuiderzee Works) dam in the Netherlands, built between 1963 and 1975 as part of the Zuiderzee Works, which connects the cities of Lelystad and Enkhuizen. On the west side... 3 KB (288 words) - 02:31, 4 January 2024 |
Breezanddijk (category Zuiderzee Works) control in the Netherlands Flood Zuiderzee Zuiderzee Works Afsluitdijk IJsselmeer Markermeer Zuiderzeemuseum Delta Works for another major waterworks project... 6 KB (249 words) - 03:16, 1 May 2023 |
that has built the Batavia replica. After the Second World War the Zuiderzee Works continued, constructing the polder of Eastern Flevoland. In 1950 work... 20 KB (1,466 words) - 06:57, 20 April 2024 |
Naviduct (category Zuiderzee Works) to the works near Enkhuizen in Dutch and English language texts. The world's only operational naviduct is near Enkhuizen, and is part of works commissioned... 9 KB (997 words) - 06:40, 23 February 2024 |
Netherlands, named after a politician involved in the planning of the Zuiderzee works Kufra Airport in Libya, which was referred to as "Buma" during World... 898 bytes (152 words) - 23:06, 24 July 2020 |
Wieringerrandmeer (category Zuiderzee Works) The Wieringerrandmeer or bordering lake of Wieringen is a project of the Dutch province of North Holland and the (former) municipalities of Wieringen and... 5 KB (624 words) - 02:26, 25 September 2023 |
when the Zuiderzee was drained by the Dutch as part of the larger Zuiderzee Works. Herring-like fish are the most important fish group on the planet... 20 KB (2,366 words) - 20:25, 3 February 2024 |
Wieringermeer (category Zuiderzee Works) Wieringmeerpolder is a polder, newly created land, and part of the Zuiderzee Works developed in the 20th century. The creation of this polder started... 5 KB (434 words) - 01:27, 2 December 2022 |
Ketelbrug (category Zuiderzee Works) The Ketelbrug is bridge spanning the Ketel-lake between the Noordoostpolder and the Eastern Flevopolder in the Dutch province of Flevoland. The motorway... 1 KB (127 words) - 18:12, 1 April 2024 |